It is now being reported by several outlets that the Department of Homeland Security has been granted the power to seize travelers “device(s) capable of storing information in digital or analog form,” including hard drives, flash drives, cell phones, iPods, pagers, beepers, and video and audio tapes” as well as “all papers and other written documentation.” If you are traveling in and out of the US, you might want to take a close look at the this new policy as it allows random warrantless search and seizures at the boarder.

Federal agents may take a traveler's laptop computer or other electronic device to an off-site location for an unspecified period of time without any suspicion of wrongdoing, as part of border search policies the Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed.

The Sony USB Memory Card Reader is an external memory card reader/writer that can read and write 17 different memory card formats. It sports a high-speed USB 2.0 interface and draws its power directly from the USB connection. The Sony USB Memory Card Reader can be connected to both Macintosh® and Windows® computers. This deal ends Tuesday at 12:00pm ET.

Thermaltake have taken their Orb design of coolers and applied it to a RAM heatspreader, complete with fan, for an interesting looking RAM cooler.

As a new member of the most famous Thermaltake Orb cooler series, RamOrb has been designed with a perfect heat transmitting channel to take heat away from the memory; consisting of a copper heatpipe to effectively conduct the heat to the copper fins for heat dissipation, and the extra 5cm fan works strongly to further accelerate the heat dissipation process. Other than the excellent structure, RamOrb is also angle adjustable for the enhancement of mechanical compatibility; and the side flow design integrates well with the chassis air flow to further push the cooling performance to the maximum.

Apple seems unable to make up its mind over NetShare, the iPhone tethering application which first appeared, disappeared, reappeared, and has now vanished again from their App Store.In what could only be termed as bizarre, Nullriver’s NetShare application has been removed once from the iPhone App Store, only to reappear and then disappear again. Apple has not released a statement as to why it’s been pulled, but one can only speculate that it in some way violates the SDK or perhaps Apple has put the app back

Social music networks are like college. You all meet up there for a while, make friends, maybe a few enemies, share all sorts of things, and then scatter to other places and make new friends. The overriding constant is that nobody has any money in either place. Social.FM, which until recently was known as Mercora, was launched in 2005, and on July 31st, shut happened. To our Valued Customers,We regret to inform you and apologize for this inconvenience, but Social.FM will be shutting down the system on July 31st,

Asus certainly made a splash this year with their line of ultra-light, ultra-affordable Eee PC notebooks and they’ve been fleshing out the product line ever since with a wealth of new offerings, as the company continues to milk the product’s successful brand name recognition for all it’s worth.Today marks the introduction of the $299 Asus Eee Box to the US market, but we’ve had a unit in house for the better part of a month now. Just what does $299 buy you in terms of capabilities and features, in an absolutely

Practical optical computing is like unicorn hunting to researchers. It promises all sorts of wonderful effects like superfast speeds and less waste heat. But messing about with photons instead of electrons posed challenges that seemed insurmountable, especially the limit on the size of the conduit needed to carry it. Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley have come up with a way to at least partially overcome this hurdle by compressing light to fit inside spaces formerly thought impossible.

Lenovo has just announced a new line-up of IdeaPad S10 netbooks built around Intel’s Atom CPU.  Like many of the other members of Lenovo’s IdeaPad product family, the S10 netbooks are available in a variety of colors and in a few different configurations.  Take a look…        IdeaPad S10 “netbook” with a high glossy and multi color options design  Red, White & Black colors in the US  Starts at $399, two configurations. The $399 unit has 512MB / 80G HDD and the $449.99

Everyone and their Aunt Sally wants to sell users on a different use for broadband.  You can stream HBO shows, Netflix videos, using tons of bandwidth, and that’s not even taking P2P into account.  Ah, and NBC would love it if you would watch the “Olympics on the Go.”  Problem is, you poor folk with metered-use broadband, which may soon come to the rest of us, might have to watch just what you … well, watch.We’ve talked before that metered access is a boneheaded idea that is bad for innovation,

FIRST DETAILS ON A FUTURE INTEL DESIGN CODENAMED ‘LARRABEE’ Intel Corporation is presenting a paper at the SIGGRAPH 2008 industry conference in Los Angeles on Aug. 12 that describes features and capabilities of its first-ever forthcoming “many-core” blueprint or architecture codenamed “Larrabee.”  Details unveiled in the SIGGRAPH paper include a new approach to the software rendering 3-D pipeline, a many-core (many processor engines in a product) programming model and performance analysis for several applications.The